On the 162nd day of Russia’s large-scale military invasion of Russia, Russian troops continue their attempts to capture the neighboring country’s settlements. Ukraine’s armed forces and territorial defense units resist aggression. It is impossible to verify the statements of representatives of both sides of the conflict from independent sources. According to the UN, about 14 million Ukrainians have already left their homes. DW is following developments on Thursday, August 4 (Moscow time).

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The European Commission does not see any threat to suspend the visa-free regime with Ukraine in light of the hostilities. About this European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson said in an interview with European Pravda. “We are helping Ukraine on its way to joining the EU and I don’t see the risk that as a result of the war there will be threats to visa liberalization for Ukraine,” he stressed.

SBU: Detained observer of Russian attacks in Mykolaiv region

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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced the arrest of another Russian missile attack observer in the Nikolaev region. The man, through social media groups and instant messengers, transmitted to the Russian side the exact coordinates of the positions of the Ukrainian military, the location of military equipment and the routes of its movement in the region, according to the SBU.

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The head of the Donetsk regional administration, Pavel Kirilenko, announced the death of 8 people as a result of bombings. Toretsk. Another 4 people were injured, he added. According to Kirilenko, the projectile hit a public transport stop. In addition, the church and surrounding multi-story buildings were damaged. The head of the regional military-civilian administration urged residents to evacuate.

AI: APU places military equipment in residential areas

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Ukrainian soldiers set up bases and use weapons systems in residential areasincluding schools and hospitals, writes international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) in its report. Similar tactics by Ukrainians threaten civilians and violates international humanitarian law, the report’s authors emphasized.

At the same time, human rights activists recorded Russia’s commission of war crimes in Kharkov. The organization “found no evidence that Ukrainian forces were in civilian areas subjected to illegal bombing by the Russian military,” the report says. Furthermore, Russia uses internationally banned cluster munitionssaid human rights activists.

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Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed disappointment with the decision of the Tripoli court in Lebanon to lift the arrest of the Syrian ship Laodecia. According to the Ukrainian side, there are flour and barley exported from Russian-occupied territories Ukraine. The court’s position “actually encourages Russia to continue robberies in temporarily occupied southern Ukraine with a sense of impunity,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said. Lebanon is “actually undermining its food security, alienating Ukraine” as a reliable partner, the Foreign Ministry added.

NATO Secretary General: Russia’s victory is unacceptable

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Jens Stoltenberg (file photo)

Russia cannot win the war with Ukraine, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “It is in our interests that such an aggressive policy does not succeed,” said Stoltenberg, who called the Russian invasion an attack on the current world order.

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), two-thirds registered this year attacks on medical institutions in the world were committed in Ukraine – 434 attacks of 615. Furthermore, the deterioration of the situation in the Ukrainian health sector is facilitated by thestaff fatigue and increased bombardment of medical facilities, the WHO said. According to the organization,People in areas inaccessible due to ongoing fighting are most at risk – in particular, Donbass in the east of the country and Kherson in the south.

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Interfax reports, citing eyewitnesses, about bombing of donetsk. “There were several powerful explosions. They bombed the center of the city”, the agency quotes the words of its interlocutor.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that gives border guardsserving on the border with Ukraine, status veterans military operations. In addition, a law was signed extending the status of veteran and disabled combatant to FSB officerswhich, as the text of the document states, “repelled an armed invasion” on the territory of the Russian Federation.

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Grain harvest in the Odessa region

The official representative of the Odessa Regional Military Administration (OVA), Sergei Bratchuk, denied the accusations, which he says are being distributed by the Russian side, about the start famine in Odessa and bread queues due to the shipment of Ukrainian grain for export. He pointed out that the photo and video materials used in such messages were not made in Ukraine, but within Russia.

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The fact that the Russian army installed corner reflectors near the Antonovsky automobile and railway bridges near Kherson british intelligence tends to explain the intention to hide the bridge from radar devices and missile guidance equipment. The British Defense Ministry said in a statement that this indicates that Russia feels threatened by the long-range and precision weapons provided by the West.

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The strategic command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that at midnight the Ukrainian army attacked Antonovsky Railway Bridge in the Kherson region. The command indicated that, judging by the fires and explosions that erupted, it came from what the Russians call “humanitarian aid and mineral fertilizers” – they mean ammunition.